“We did not seek the shadows. The shadows sought us.” — Prologue inscription, Codex of the Nameless Covenant
Ysara was not born in shadow. She was a Dawnchild—a being of pure daylight, tasked with hunting night-terrors. For centuries, she burned away vampires, shadow-demons, and lurking horrors. Then she met a night-terror who did not run: a quiet, forgotten entity named , who lived in the shadow of a single weeping willow, protecting a field of glow-worms from predators. Umbral had never harmed anyone. It simply was the dark between fireflies.